Middlezoy / Sowi / Sowy
Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover in the foreground, to the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090509005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Ethridge, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2006/7 by Tony Ethridge [http://middlezoy.tripod.com/tonysmiddlezoypicsfeb2006/index.album/the-church-interior?i=5] [accessed 9 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dbown100, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2006 by Dbown100 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Middlezoychurch.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14620MID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross [St. Mary in the 16th century -- St. Lawrence in the 13th century]
Church Address: Church Road, Middlezoy TA7 0NU, UK
Site Location: Somerset, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A372, just NNW of Othery, 10 km ESE of Bridgwater
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bath & Wells
Historical Region: Hundred of Whitley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Middle]zoy and Weston[zoy]land [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/middlezoy-and-westonzoyland/] [accessed 1 May 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it.
Pevsner (1958) writes: "Font. Of the octagonal Perp[endicular] standard type." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "Middlezoy chapel was dedicated to St. Lawrence in the early 13th century [...] and to St. Mary in the 1540s [...] By 1754 [...] the present dedication to Holy Cross had been adopted", and describes the font as "late medieval". The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with deeply-carved pointed quatrefoil panels with floral motif inscribed; the underbowl chamfer is fluted; raised on a slender octagonal pedestal with panelled sides. The wooden font cover is flat, decorated with metal, and has a large acorn finial.
Pevsner (1958) writes: "Font. Of the octagonal Perp[endicular] standard type." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Somerset, vol. 8, 2004) notes: "Middlezoy chapel was dedicated to St. Lawrence in the early 13th century [...] and to St. Mary in the 1540s [...] By 1754 [...] the present dedication to Holy Cross had been adopted", and describes the font as "late medieval". The font consists of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with deeply-carved pointed quatrefoil panels with floral motif inscribed; the underbowl chamfer is fluted; raised on a slender octagonal pedestal with panelled sides. The wooden font cover is flat, decorated with metal, and has a large acorn finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Ethridge, of Somerset Villages, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 507409 5660272
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.0939, -2.8942
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 5′ 38.04″ N, 2° 53′ 39.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South and West Somerset, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1958, p. 236